![]() | Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. His many books include The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton). He lives in Palo Alto, California. Twitter @WalterScheidel |
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